Discovery Fellows

The Mellon Discovery Fellowship program brings together graduate students from a variety of disciplines at the early stages of their careers in the belief that it is important and valuable to encourage collaborative exchange from the very beginning of graduate study. Funded by the Townsend Center and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program supports seven entering graduate students in the humanities and related fields for their first three years of graduate work at Berkeley.

2007-2008 Fellows

These entering students are the newest members of the Fellowship group:

Juliana Chow, English
Emily Frey, Music
Douglas Gildow, Buddhist Studies
Alexandra Kleeman, Rhetoric
Blanca Misse, French
Megan Wachspress, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
Margarita Zaydman, Comparative Literature

They will join continuing students:

Kareem Abu-Zeid, Comparative Literature
Nilgun Bayraktar, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Daniel Clinton, English
Christina Graybill, Near Eastern Studies
Gokhan Irfanoglu, Sociology
Elizabeth Kelley, Anthropology
J. Matthew Kiser, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Brenno Kaneyasu Maranhâo, Spanish and Portuguese
Jonathon Repinecz, French
Paul Roquet, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Amy Russell, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
Jennifer Solheim, French
Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Comparative Literature
Jessica Rasheeda Williams, Italian Studies
Fabiana Woodfin, Italian Studies